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or racemes. Calyx campanulate, not gibbous at the base, glandular- 

 dotted, 5-lobed, tlie lowest lobe slightly longer than the rest. Corolla 

 purple or ochroleueous, the keel with a dark-purple tip; banner broadly 

 obovate, with more or less distinct basal lobes and a short somewhat 

 curved claw; wings and keel-petals as in Orbexilum, but the claws of the 

 former varying from equaling to half as long as the blades. The staminal 

 tnbe as in that genus. Style usually more abruptly bent above. Stigma 

 globose, bearded. Pod obliquely oval or ovate, with a short and slender 

 beak, pübescent, ineluded in the calyx ; periearp thin, free from the seed. 

 Seed dark-brown or black, oval-reniform, smooth and shining. 

 Type species, Psoralca macrostachya DC. 

 Hoita glandulosa (L.) Rydb. 1. c. p. 8 (= Psoralea glandulosa L. = ! P. lutea 

 Molina = ? P. Cullen Poir. = Lotodes glandulosum Ktze.). - - Peru, Cali- 

 fornia, Chile. 

 H. physodes (Dougl.) Rydb. 1. c. p. 8 (= Psoralea physodes Dougl. = Latodes 

 physodes Ktze.). - Columbia, Vancouver Island to southern California. 

 H. rigida (Parish) Rydb. 1. c. p. 9 (= Psoralea rigida Parish). - - California. 

 H. rhomboidea Rydb. 1. c. p. 9 (== Psoralea macrostachya DC var. rhomboidea 



Torr., non Torr, et Gr.). — California. 

 H. macrostachya (DC) Rydb. 1. c. p. 9 (= Psoralea macrostachya DC = 



Lotodes macrostachyum Ktze.). — California. 

 H. longiloba Rydb. 1. c. p. 10. -- Southern California (Parry et Lemmon n. 84). 

 H. villosa Rydb. 1. c. p. 10. — California (Heller n. 5761). 

 H. Hallii Rydb. 1. c. p. 10. — California (Hall n. 9825). 

 H. Douglasii (G-reene) Rydb. 1. e. p. 11 (= Psoralea macrostachya Lindl. = P. 



strobilina ß. T. et Gr. = P. Douglasii Greene). — California. 

 H. strobilina (H. et A.) Rydb. 1. c. p. 11 (= Psoralea strobilina H. et A. = P. 



macrostachya ß. T. et Gr. = Lotodes strobilinum Ktze.). - - California. 

 H. orbicularis (Lindl.) Rydb. 1. c. p. 11 (= Psoralea orbicularis Lindl. = 



Lotodes orbiculare Ktze.). — California. 

 Indigofera Barberi Gamble in Kew Bull. 1919, p. 222. — S. India (C A. Barber 



n. 1076, Bourne n. 869). 

 /. guaranitica Hassler in Fedde, Rep. XVI (1919) p. 160. - - Paraguay (Hassler 



n. 7983. 12027, Fiebrig n. 4661 et 5035). 

 /. lespedezioides H.B.K. var. pascuorum (Benth.) Hassler 1. c. p. 161 (= /. 



pascuorum Benth.). — Gran Chaco (Fiebrig n. 1496). 

 /. Purpusii Brandeg. in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. VI (1919) p. 499. - - Mexico 



(Purpus n. 8167). 

 /. sphinctosperma Standl. in Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. XX (1919) p. 216. - 



Mexico (Purpus n. 2332. 6077. 3641). 

 Inga arinensis Hoehne in Comm. Linhas Telegr. Estrateg. Matto Grosso ao 

 Amazonas Publ. Nr. 45, Bot. Parte VIII (1919) p. 17, Tab. 132. - - Matto 

 Grosso (J. G. Kuhlmann n. 447 — 450). 

 /. fagifolia Wüld. var. typica Hassler in Fedde, Rep. XVI (1919) p. 154. — 

 Brasilien. 



var. marginata (Wüld. pro spec.) Hassler 1. c. p. 154. 



f. genuina (Benth.) Hassler 1. c. p. 155. — Brasilien. 



f. pedicella is (Benth.) Hassler 1. c. p. 185. — Paraguay (Hassler 



n. 4515. 5739. 9582). 

 f. intermedia Hassler 1. c. p. 155. — Paraguay (Hasslern. 4628. 6719). 



